Zin Zaw has a new home

Today Geoff and I set off to buy lots of bits and pieces while Irvine and Fiona were home visiting. We walked through the market where we saw live fish being sold for eating but also bags of big frogs that weren't dead yet. Really horrible!

On our way home, we were looking at Zin Zaw's house when she ran over from the next lane. "Teacher, teacher, come to see my new house." Her new house has 2 rooms and she has a room which she shares with one sister. Last year so many people lived in one room.

Her sister and her husband were so hospitable. Somebody ran quickly to the shop to buy us a bottle of coke each. Icy cold, we were rubbing it all over our freezing cold faces much to their delight. How totally generous of them was that. They earn so little, no more than 50 bahts per day (£1) and yet they spend more than half of that on buying us juice. So humbling when they treat us with such great honour.

Zin Zaw is now in Grade 6, having stayed at school because a Forthview teacher has funded her for the last year.

Check the Mae Sot hairdo and beamer!